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Tartuffe. Probably no actor alive can make one physiognomy do for two faces better than Emil Jannings, so that it is fitting he should act the hypocrite of Moliere's story. Unfortunately, his ability to make himself look repulsive while duping the helpless Orgon, is hardly enough to galvanize the play...
...Flesh (Emil Jannings). Not Samuel Butler's famed novel but Perley Poore Sheehan's little-known story supplies the framework of the great German actor's first U. S.-made film.* It concerns one August Schiller, who flourished in Milwaukee back in the days when gentlemen associated that town with beer, and when ladies carried muffs. The first half of the film shows him a pillar of society, plain, foursquare, sunk in a large family. A doting father of six, a pompous cashier in his bank, a champion bowler, he is admirable in all things, full...
...Other films in which Emil Jannings has appeared : The Last, Laugh, Siegfried, Variety, Faust, †A previous cinema example : the De Mille picture : The Ten Commandments- * Actor Charles Emmet Mack was killed in an automobile accident in Hollywood while driving to the studio to be filmed in this picture...
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...bibbers swallowed and the more drunk they became, the more bluish green became the solution. There is so definite a relation between degree of intoxication and the sulphuric acid-potassium dichromate tint, that Cincinnati judges have used its evidence in arrests for driving motor cars while drunk.?Dr. Emil Bogen, University of Cincinnati...